Sara Bynoe
February 26, 2024 5 min read
After years of focusing my environmental energy on individual choices, I’m cutting myself some slack.
February 26, 2024 - 5 min read
From landfills to forest trails, footwear causes plastic pollution. Can we move from buyer beware to reduce, reuse, and repair?
Sun Woo Baik
November 20, 2023 - 8 min read
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August 29, 2023 - 2 min read
A zero-waste pioneer shares thoughts on community-building, intentional shopping, and unsexy solutions.
July 31, 2023 - 5 min read
Easy ways to break up with the stuff that doesn’t break down.
July 14, 2023 - 5 min read
The Climate Disaster Project was named a finalist in the Covering Climate Now awards.
July 05, 2023 - min read
Forget the memes: Canadian police hurt Black and Indigenous people just as much as their colleagues to the south.
Molly Cross-Blanchard
February 14, 2023 - 5 min read
Art markets in the US Southwest can be spaces of pain for the Indigenous people whose cultural artifacts they sell.
Larissa Nez
July 07, 2022 - 7 min read
This BC First Nation is using green technology to live out its ancestral values.
Leona Humchitt
June 21, 2022 - 5 min read
Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island are healing forests for the future.
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Lauren Kaljur
June 21, 2022 - 13 min read
Indigenous filmmaker Heather Hatch’s new documentary has been five years in the making.
Angelina Ravelli
May 11, 2022 - 5 min read
Two documentaries explore how erasure impacts Indigenous peoples, and the ways two nations are fighting to be seen.
Zeahaa Rehman
May 05, 2022 - 7 min read
Vancouver writer digs into Britain’s transformative WWII food policies to find guidance for our own war on climate change.
Jessie Johnston
June 23, 2023 - 7 min read
Documentary about India’s jute factories immerses viewers in a natural-fibre industry on the cusp of transformation.
Baisakhi Roy
May 05, 2023 - 5 min read
Indie designer Tina Ozols repurposes textile waste to make treasured, long-lasting fashion.
Odette Auger
October 18, 2022 - 5 min read
Combining music, field recordings, and puppetry, Songs for a Lost Pod is a journey through natural and personal history.
Tessa Vikander
May 26, 2022 - 6 min read
New documentary spotlights a Louisiana community in denial about the climate crisis.
Daina Lawrence
May 12, 2022 - 6 min read
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